Greetings, I am trying to write a service file for a tool called devilspie2.
% systemctl --user cat devilspie.service # /home/mzagrabe/.config/systemd/user/devilspie.service [Unit] Description=devilspie [Service] ExecStart=/usr/bin/devilspie2 [Install] WantedBy=default.target which I enabled via: % systemctl --user enable devilspie.service but it is not successfully starting on boot/login: % systemctl --user status devilspie.service ● devilspie.service - devilspie Loaded: loaded (/home/mzagrabe/.config/systemd/user/devilspie.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2019-08-06 13:39:23 CDT; 3min 14s ago Process: 826 ExecStart=/usr/bin/devilspie2 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Main PID: 826 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Aug 06 13:39:23 tombstone systemd[815]: Started devilspie. Aug 06 13:39:23 tombstone systemd[815]: devilspie.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Aug 06 13:39:23 tombstone systemd[815]: devilspie.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. The actual reason isn't making it into the systemctl output, but does show in the journal (under the "unknown" log entry [826]): % journalctl --user --since '10 minutes ago' [...] Aug 06 13:39:23 tombstone systemd[815]: Started devilspie. Aug 06 13:39:23 tombstone systemd[815]: Reached target Default. Aug 06 13:39:23 tombstone systemd[815]: Startup finished in 27ms. Aug 06 13:39:23 tombstone systemd[815]: Started D-Bus User Message Bus. Aug 06 13:39:23 tombstone unknown[826]: cannot open display: Aug 06 13:39:23 tombstone systemd[815]: devilspie.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Aug 06 13:39:23 tombstone systemd[815]: devilspie.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. So... It looks like devilspie2 does not successfully start under a user systemd instance due to "cannot open display". Since I log in via lightdm I am wondering what I am missing. Any ideas or pointers on how to properly start devilspie2 under a user systemd instance? Thanks for any help! -m
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